KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan election officials agreed Sunday to create an independent commission to probe opposition charges of fraud in this nation's first presidential poll, while ballot-boxes stuffed with the aspirations of the people of this war-ravaged land started to stack up in counting centers.

Officials met in an effort to end a boycott of the ballot by opponents of U.S.-backed interim President Hamid Karzai.

Tallying of the votes had been expected to start Sunday, but U.N. officials said the process wouldn't start for three to four days.